I can’t wait to perform with Dunedin Consort at the Cheltenham Festival! The ensemble is playing an all J. S. Bach programme, including two cantatas with the fantastic Hugh Cutting. The performance will be recorded, so in case you miss the live show, you will be able to catch it a few days later on BBC Radio 3. For further information, please take a look at the link below:
I am really looking forward to taking part as a coach in the Academy of Ancient Music’s AAMplify programme at the Royal Academy of Music, where we will be working on G. Ph. Telemann’s stunning cantata ‘Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin’ with some fantastically talented students.
Scots Baroque is performing its exciting ‘Reflections’ programme as part of the Sypert Summer Concert Series! The performance will take place in the wonderful St Cecilia’s Hall in Edinburgh – to find out more please take a look at the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/sypert-summer-concert-series-2023-2103799
I look forward to impersonating the ‘Snake’ itself in Dunedin Consort’s new multisensory children’s show, The Enchanted Snake. The production features storyteller Mara Menzies, the artwork of James Abell, and it is directed by Lucia Capellaro. The performances will take place in Cumbernauld Theatre at Lanternhouse – to find out more, take a look at the following link:
I look forward to participating in a programme featuring music from Handel’s Roman period with the brilliant soprano Nardus Williams and Dunedin Consort. The performances will take place in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London’s Wigmore Hall, and Saffron Hall. To find out more please follow the link below:
https://www.dunedin-consort.org.uk/diary/
This March, Scots Baroque is embarking on a tour in Scotland, where we will be playing a diverse programme featuring underrepresented composers, and music spanning multiple centuries and various cultures. Our performances will take place on the Isle of Arran, in Lenzie, and in Penicuik, and they are supported by Chamber Music Scotland.
I can’t wait to perform our debut concert as Turnstone Society – a brand new music collective led by recorder player Yu-Ching Chao and myself. The group centres around our recently completed 11-piece recorder consort by Adrian Brown, and in our first performance, which will take place in Hamburg, we will perform 5-part polyphonic music from the Renaissance. More on the developments of this new group to follow soon!
I look forward to perform Vivaldi’s extravagant Concerto con molti strumenti (RV 558) with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Maxim Emelyanychev. The performances will take place in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen – for further details please take a look at the orchestra’s website:
I’m extremely glad to participate as a guest soloist in Dunedin Consort’s annual Schools Workshop Programme, which brings classical music to over 1000 children living in deprived areas of Scotland. On the link below you can find further information about the Programme:
https://www.dunedin-consort.org.uk/learning-and-participation/schools-workshops/
I look forward to participate in the 19th annual conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society, where I will deliver my paper titled Inspired by Everyday Theatricality: Courtly Behavioural Norms in the Performance Practice of Marco da Gagliano’s ‘La Dafne’. To find out more about the detailed programme of the conference, please follow the link below: